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-{{Featured article headline|[[Alone liner notes|''Alone'' liner notes]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Kerrang! article - April 27, 2002]]}}
-[[Image:Alonelinernotes19.jpg|150px|right|link=Alone liner notes]]
+[[Image:Kerrang-april2002-weezer01.jpg|150px|right|link=Kerrang! article - April 27, 2002]]
-The following is an excerpt from '''[[Rivers Cuomo's]] liner notes for his first officially-related demo compilation, ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'''''.
+The following is an excerpt from a ''Kerrang!'' interview with [[Rivers Cuomo]].
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-<span style="color:#aa0000">'''BUDDY HOLLY.'''</SPAN> June 1993<br>
+{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|Do you consider yourself a normal person?}}
-{{Rivers|I was in the Santa Monica College Choir and I met a kid named Steve Graff who lent me his Korg Keyboard. Inspired by its goofy synth sounds, I decided to write some new-wave influenced songs.
+{{Rivers|I consider myself a normal person in extraordinary, abnormal circumstances. I think if anyone were in my position they would end up acting like I do.}}
+{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|Why did you pull that little rock star trip today?}}
-The chorus melody, though, I came up with as I was walking through the lawns of the campus. The melody was in time to my steps: "ooo-we-ooo I look just like Buddy Holly." The lyrics I struggled with, trying to find the right reference point. An early version read, "ooo-we-ooo you look just like Ginger Rogers. Oh-oh I move just like Fred Astaire."
+{{Rivers|There’s incidents like that all the time.}}
+{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|I think you’ve been childish, a bit "toys out of the pram". Do you know what I mean?}}
-The life-situation that inspired the lyric was an incident in which the Weezer guys were making fun of my friend Kyung He (also in the Santa Monica College Choir). They were the "homies dissin' my girl".
+{{Rivers|I think so (laughs). Well, I try to give myself complete license to do whatever I want at any time regardless of how it affects other people and … I think the benefits I gain artistically from living like that outweigh the costs of, um, all the problems that I have with society.}}
+{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|Meaning?}}
-I rarely wrote lyrics about tension between me and the guys in the band because I thought it would be awkward for us all to perform those songs together. In this case, though, it didn't seem like a big deal.
+{{Rivers|Everyone hating me.}}
+{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|What kind of person does that make you?}}
-Obviously, this track is kind of slow compared to how it ended up on the Weezer record. [Even on the Weezer record we recorded it pretty slow. We sped it up during mastering.] I've always like big, fat, heavy guitar sounds and when I write a song with a sound like that I end up digging in and playing real slow. It isn't 'til we hear a song back on tape that we realize, "hey, that's a little dirgy."}}
+{{Rivers|Selfish…immature.}}
+{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|And you’re alright with that?}}
+{{Rivers|Yeah, I’ve tried all different kinds of ways of living and I’ve discovered that this is the most conducive to creativity, acting on whim regardless of consequences.}}
+{{Interviewer|Kerrang!|With no consideration for other people?}}
+{{Rivers|No. Occasionally, I’ll have pangs of conscience but I try to overcome them. To me that’s a small price to pay.}}
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